tom sherborne
Postdoc / PhD Candidate in NLP
3.33 Informatics Forum
10 Crichton St
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
I’m a research associate in the ILCC/EdinburghNLP working with Mirella Lapata on multilingual information retrieval. I recently submitted my PhD thesis at Edinburgh with my viva planned for May 2024.
I was previously in the CDT in Data Science. I have interned at AI2 in 2023 and Apple Siri in 2018. Previously, I completed an MSc(R) in Data Science at the University of Edinburgh, and an MPhil in Computer Science at The Computer Lab — working with Ann Copestake on multimodal semantics. My undergrad was at UCL EEE — working with Polina Bayvel on hardware optimisation for optical signal processing.
I’m interested in cross-lingual transfer, optimization + information geometry, croissants and kayaking.
news
Jan 31, 2024 | I submitted my PhD thesis: Modelling Cross-lingual Transfer for Semantic Parsing! I will defend in my viva in May 2024. |
Jan 16, 2024 | Trust Region Aware Minimization is accepted to ICLR (Spotlight, Top 5%)! We propose a variant of SAM to improve zero-shot domain adaptation during fine-tuning. Code |
Nov 30, 2023 | Optimal Transport Posterior Alignment for Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing is now up on MIT Press! I will be in person at EMNLP 2023 presenting on Friday (poster session 3) and at the MRL 2023 poster session on Thursday. |
Oct 31, 2023 | Gave a talk about our new paper Optimal Transport Posterior Alignment for Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing at UIUC Urbana-Champaign and AI2. The AI2 talk is on YouTube here. |
Oct 5, 2023 | New preprint out! In TRAM: Bridging Trust Regions and Sharpness Aware Minimization we propose a variant of sharpness-aware minimization for domain adaptation during fine-tuning. |